Exploring Splunk queues
The Splunk data pipeline is a series of processes that converts incoming data into Splunk events. These processes include breaking data into events, defining the timestamp, and extracting fields. We will use a set of keywords throughout this section, including pipeline, processor, and queue. A pipeline is a Splunk thread. There can be multiple pipelines running at the same time. There may be multiple processors/processes within a pipeline. The queue is the data structure that stores data between pipelines. Data coming into Splunk is queued before it can be processed. If a process takes longer than usual, the queues fill up. In this section, we will discuss the different segments of the Splunk data pipeline. Figure 8.8 shows the relationship between queues, processors, and pipelines:
Figure 8.8 – Queues, pipelines, and processors
The Splunk data pipeline consists of four main segments:
- Parsing
- Merging
- Typing...